Daniels, Gritzka, Kraft & Co.

Daniels, Gritzka, Kraft & Co.

Daniels, Gritzka, Kraft & Co. was founded in 1998 as Knapp Voith Vermögensverwaltungs AG, the single-family office managing assets tied to the Voith industrial dynasty. In 2020, principals Alexander Daniels and Christian Gritzka acquired the majority stake from Andreas Knapp Voith, renamed the firm, and opened the platform to external families, entrepreneurs, and foundations seeking a common investment infrastructure. The firm structures client portfolios across private credit, private equity, real estate, and direct startup investments. Its mandate spans growth and early-stage opportunities in Europe and North America, with a thematic lens toward AI/ML and ESG-integrated strategies. Rather than running a single pooled vehicle, the firm builds individually managed portfolios, blending direct co-investments with access to niche managers. Since the 2020 transition, the firm has maintained a lean footprint concentrated in Hamburg. Industry recognition provides a partial signal of its standing: the office has been included in the Elite Report ranking of top German-speaking asset managers, in partnership with Handelsblatt, each year since 2019. The successor principals have not publicly disclosed a professional headcount. The firm's architecture is defined by its origin as a single-family office that converted to a multi-family platform through a management buyout. This gives it a governance model where the principals are also the equity owners, aligning their incentives directly with the client families they serve while operating without the product-manufacturing pressure of a large bank or asset manager.